Congressman Cohen Announces Delta Regional Authority Grants
Funding for the Boys and Girls Club and University of Memphis
WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9) today announced that the Delta Regional Authority (DRA) will provide $7 million for 25 workforce development projects throughout the lower Mississippi River Delta, including two in Memphis.
The Boys and Girls Club of Memphis will receive $300,000 for training and certifying young people between 14 and 22 in logistics, auto mechanics, the culinary arts, and welding. The University of Memphis, in partnership with Coahoma Community College in Clarksdale, Mississippi, will receive $300,000 for workforce development in Coahoma County.
Congressman Cohen made the following statement:
“Providing the critical skills employers need strengthens the economy and our communities. I am pleased to see the DRA investing in the Delta workforce and I’m sure that investment will pay off in good-paying jobs.”
The DRA was created in 2000 as a framework for joint federal-state collaboration in the economic development of 255 counties or parishes in Alabama, Arkansas, Illinois, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri and Tennessee.
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